Fake or the rider fell on a belt sander

Fake or the rider fell on a belt sander

Poll: Fake or the rider fell on a belt sander

Total Members Polled: 77

so fake even lookie, lookie men wont touch it: 79%
Its real but dogs still cant look up: 5%
47: 16%
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moanthebairns

Original Poster:

17,918 posts

197 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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Over to you...I'm having a bit of a debate with a chap who swears this is real.

randlemarcus

13,507 posts

230 months

bass gt3

10,186 posts

232 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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randlemarcus said:
I call custard...

The distance you'd have to be dragged to grind it down that much just don't stack up with the story.
Plus if you think about the location of the grinding, picture where the neck and body would have to be to get this part of the lid to scrape along the road. If you're under a bus you're not going to be doing headstands like this damage would require.
I've had some BIG off's at high speed and hit the ground with my head and slid. NONE have any damage more than the size of a couple of 50 pence pieces.
Good story mind, never mind reality wink

LoonR1

26,988 posts

176 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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That has got to be the biggest bullst story ever posted by anyone ever. It's also so obviously fake that there really shouldn't be a discussion. Roads don't have such perfectly smooth surfaces that they'd file the edges of that so perfectly.

If there was a hint of truth in that, then the guy would be dead from the other injuries that he would have sustained.

StuB

6,695 posts

238 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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It's too flat.

bogie

16,342 posts

271 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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fake ..and why do so many people on different sites reckon its "their mate" ..the guy gets around a bit

another internet myth....

Some Gump

12,671 posts

185 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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Choped with a bandsaw.

The trailing edge woukd be chipped to st if it was a sanded with a rough surface, and if it was a smoother grit it'd heat up too much and melt the inner parts of the helmet, which are mainly polystyrine...

cat with a hat

1,484 posts

117 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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The cut looks far too clean for such a strange angle..

Im also calling bullst

y2blade

56,029 posts

214 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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Custard

Reardy Mister

13,757 posts

221 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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Complete bks. Not only would you need speed and distance to do that, you'd need considerable downward force. Probably enough to have squashed the shell of the helmet. That's been ground or cut away deliberately as sure as my arse points to the ground.

Actually, if the bus had him hooked up in such a way that his head was forced into the tarmac AND dragged him for quite a long way, it maybe do-able. And that's after exactly no years as a crash investigator with any credible organisation biggrin

Edited by Reardy Mister on Thursday 30th July 12:10

moanthebairns

Original Poster:

17,918 posts

197 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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it would break the guys neck if the scenario happened.

sc0tt

18,032 posts

200 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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Aggressive break dancer?

bass gt3

10,186 posts

232 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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Some Gump said:
Choped with a bandsaw.

The trailing edge would be chipped to st if it was a sanded with a rough surface, and if it was a smoother grit it'd heat up too much and melt the inner parts of the helmet, which are mainly polystyrene...
^ this ^

winner winner chicken dinner

Pebbles167

3,417 posts

151 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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To be honest, I'm not entirely sure if the picture is real at all. Could quite easily be a photoshop, as the damage follows the contours of the original helmet profile.

dudleybloke

19,717 posts

185 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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bass gt3 said:
Some Gump said:
Choped with a bandsaw.

The trailing edge would be chipped to st if it was a sanded with a rough surface, and if it was a smoother grit it'd heat up too much and melt the inner parts of the helmet, which are mainly polystyrene...
^ this ^

winner winner chicken dinner
Agreed.

Pebbles167

3,417 posts

151 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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anonymous said:
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I thought this too, but after looking I found another image and the marks line up between both perfectly. This leads me to believe that it is real, although the cause is still dubious.


Prof Prolapse

16,160 posts

189 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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anonymous said:
[redacted]
It has gone into the foam. That looks like discoloured polysterene to me, possible from dirt? You can see the slight line where it becomes the hard shell around it. Which actually would be likely to support his claim as I'm not convinced a saw or sander would do leave that black residue.

Also when people make up injuries, they don't normally bring up a damaged spleen, most people don't even know what it does.

That said I'm sitting on the fence. For a change.


Biker's Nemesis

38,534 posts

207 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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I really don't know what to think with this One, my gut is saying it a load of st but my head is thinking different.

I can't see why anyone would make anything up like this, I really can't.

In the link it says that he was dragged under a bus so it is possible that the damage could be from that.

steve954

895 posts

179 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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So who has a old helmet we can put on a belt sander to find out how long it would take to get that low? I have a belt sander at work I could easily use but no helmet.

Some Gump

12,671 posts

185 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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steve954 said:
So who has a old helmet we can put on a belt sander to find out how long it would take to get that low? I have a belt sander at work I could easily use but no helmet.
Really? Just shaft then? smile